Five years on, Ashley Madison hack victims targeted in new wave of extortion scams

Five years after the infamous hack of extramarital affairs hookup site Ashley Madison, the then 32 million users of the site affected are once again being targeted in a fresh wave of extortion scams. The fresh wave of “sextortion” attacks was detected by Vade Secure threat analyst Damien Alexandre and involves targets receiving an email threatening to share their Ashley Madison account details along with other embarrassing data with family and friends on social media and via email.

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